{"id":22100,"date":"2023-06-27T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22100"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:40:25","slug":"exit-strategy-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22100","title":{"rendered":"Exit Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DDYnkK\">Exit Strategy<\/a><\/em> (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/wells_martha.php\">Martha Wells<\/a> (The Murderbot Diaries)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DDYnkK\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Exit-Strategy.jpg?resize=199%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Exit Strategy\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Exit-Strategy.jpg?w=740&amp;ssl=1 740w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Exit-Strategy.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Exit-Strategy.jpg?resize=678%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the shows, I saw humans comfort each other all the time at moments like this. I had never wanted that and I still didn\u2019t. (Touching while rendering assistance, shielding humans from explosions, etc., is different.) But I was the only one here, so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. \u201cUh, you can hug me if you need to.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She started to laugh, then her face did something complicated and she hugged me. I upped the temperature in my chest and told myself it was like first aid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019d just discarded Plan Actually Not All That Terrible and shifted to Plan Approaching Terrible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>How humans decide what to do with their arms on a second-by-second basis, I still have no idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Publisher: Tordotcom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 10\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exit Strategy (2018) Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries) In the shows, I saw humans comfort each other all the time at moments like this. I had never wanted that and I still didn\u2019t. (Touching while rendering assistance, shielding humans from explosions, etc., is different.) But I was the only one here, so I braced myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,189,668,292,207,608,196,148,41,25,936],"tags":[219,218,538,655],"class_list":["post-22100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-10","category-ace","category-comfort-read","category-ebook","category-mental-health-rep","category-neurodiversity","category-novella","category-queer","category-reread","category-science-fiction","category-single-point-of-view","tag-martha-wells","tag-murderbot","tag-nb","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5Ks","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24169,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24169","url_meta":{"origin":22100,"position":0},"title":"Exit Strategy, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"January 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Exit Strategy, Audiobook (2018) Martha Wells, narrated by Kevin R. 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